494 CANARIAX COLEOPTERA. 



738. Trachyscelis aphodioides. 



Trachyscelis aphodioides, Lat., he. cit. (1809). 

 , Guerin-Men., Icon., Ins. pi. .31. f. 3. 



Hahitat Lanzarotam, Fuerteventuram et Canariam, sub fucis nec- 

 non ad radices plantarum in arenosis maritimis crescentium fodiens. 



This little insect of Mediterranean latitudes is locally abundant in 

 the more eastern islands of the archipelago — burrowing beneath 

 marine rejectamenta on the sea-beach, as well as at the roots of plants 

 in the loose sand immediately behind it. In such situations I have 

 taken it to the south of Arrecife in Lanzarote, at Corralejo and near 

 Puerto de Cabras (where it was found also by Mr. Gray) in Fuerte- 

 ventura, and between Las Palmas and the Isleta in Grand Canary. 



Fam. 71. PHALERIAD^E. 



Genus 277. PHALERIA. 

 Latreille, Hist, des Crust, et Ins. iii. 103 (1802). 



739. Phaleria cadaverina. 



P. ovata, subopaca, infuscato-testacea, minute punctulata (punctis in 

 capite fortioribus), in limbo subcalva (nee ciliata); prothorace sub- 

 convexo, tenuiter marginato, ad latera subasqualiter leviter rotim- 

 dato, angulis posticis subrotundato-obtusis, basi utrinque foveola 

 bi'evissima punctiformi impresso ; elytris convexis, profunde sub- 

 crenato-striatis, aut concoloribus aut singulis plaga discali irre- 

 gular! obscurii nigrescente ornatis.- — Long. corp. lin. 21-2^. 



Tenebrio cadaverinus, Fah., Ent. Sijst. i. 113 (1792). 



, Sturm, Deutseli. Fna, ii. 230. pi. 47. f. A (1807). 



Phaleria cadaverina, Steplt., 111. Brit. Ent. v. 15 (1832), 



Hahitat Gomeram, juxta oram maritimam ad Sanctum Sebastianum, 

 tempore vernali a.d. 18B2, a cl. W. D. Crotch reperta. 



Four specimens of the common European P. cadaverina were taken 

 by Dr. Crotch, during the spring of 1862, in Gomera, " close to the 

 sea-shore at San Sebastian," — the only ones which I have as yet seen 

 from these islands. 



740. Phaleria ornata. 

 P. prsecedenti similis, sed paulo minor, nitidior, subtilius punctulata, 

 sensim minus convexa, in limbo ciliata, clarius testacea, elytris con- 

 spicue et laetius nigro-maculatis (maculis plerumque maximis con- 

 fluentibus, interdum elytra fei'e tegentibus) ; prothorace vix minore, 

 ad latera minus sequaliter rotundato (basin versus sensim rectiore), 

 angulis posticis argutius determinatis, paulo angustius marginato ; 

 elytrorum striis evidentius crenulatis. 



